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The state of the Trump's union has been the subject of scrutiny in recent weeks after the first lady's verified personal Twitter account liked a tweet about her dramatic change in facial expressions at the inauguration when she smiled, then scowled, after the president glanced in her direction.

Huge effigies of Trump and Michel were also on display during the march with the Belgian PM portrayed as a puppet of the USA president. The composition of the US delegation has evolved over the course of the president's maiden foreign trip.

Abedi, a 22-year-old British citizen born to Libyan parents, died in the attack. "A strong, capable and united North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is at the heart of the security of each and every one of our nations", she is expected to say, according to a senior government official.

President Donald Trump for an ad hoc meeting where everyone hopes to hear where exactly the leader of NATO's most powerful presence stands on the alliance's very existence. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that joining the US -led anti-Islamic State coalition "will send a strong political message of NATO's commitment to the fight against terrorism and also improve our coordination within the coalition".

Trump also paid a visit to Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, where he called the Nazi extermination of six million Jews "the most savage crime against God and his children". Early in the morning, Trump met with Abbas in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem during which he emphasized his commitment to trying to achieve a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Armed police officers patrol around St Ann's Square during a vigil on Wednesday in Manchester, England . Americans wanted to pounce to quickly stop the plot whereas British authorities were trying to better determine the suspects' capability and wider terror connections, according to two British officials who worked on the case at the time.